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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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We
have
not
used
the
extravagant
lace
curtains
that
seem
to
go
with
brocades
and
carvings,
because
we
are
modern
enough
not
to
believe
in
lace
curtains.
And
we
find
that
the
thin
white
muslin
ones
give
our
brocades
and
tapestries
a
chance
to
assert
their
decorative
importance.
Somehow,
lace
curtains
give
a
room
such
a
dressed-up-for-company
air
that
they
quite
spoil
the
effect
of
beautiful
fabrics.
We
have
a
few
fine
old
Savonnerie
carpets
that
are
very
much
at
home
in
this
house,
and
so
many
interesting
Eighteenth
Century
prints
we
hardly
know
how
to
use
them.
Our
bedrooms
are
very
simple,
with
their
white
panelings
and
chintz
hangings.
We
have
furnished
them
with
graceful
and
feminine
things,
delicately
carved
mirror
frames
and
inlaid
tables,
painted
beds,
and
chests
of
drawers
of
rosewood
or
satinwood.
We
feel
that
the
ghosts
of
the
fair
ladies
who
live
in
the
Park
would
adore
the
bedrooms
and
rejoice
in
the
strange
magic
of
electric
lights.
If
the
ghosts
should
be
confronted
with
the
electric
lights
their
surprise
would
not
be
greater
than
was
the
consternation
of
our
builders
when
we
demanded
five
bathrooms.
They
were
astounded,
and
assured
us
it
was
not
necessary,
it
was
not
possible.
Indeed,
it
seemed
that
it
was
hardly
legal
to
give
one
small
French
house
five
American
bathrooms.
We
fought
the
matter
out,
and
got
them,
however.
We
determined
to
make
the
house
seem
a
part
of
the
garden,
and
so
we
built
a
broad
terrace
across
the
rear
of
the
villa.
You
step
directly
from
the
long
windows
of
the
salon
and
dining-room
upon
the
terrace,
and
before
you
is
spread
out
our
little
garden,
and
back
of
that,
through
an
opening
in
the
trees,
a
view
of
the
Château,
our
never-failing
source
of
inspiration.
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